Mathematical Biology: what is it?

Modelling life. Biology is the science of life. Mathematical biology transforms the processes of living systems into model systems of equations. Analysing these models with mathematical or computational techniques can help us to understand the roles and interactions of different components of the system. These relationships are often complex and surprising! We can also use models to make predictions about how systems will respond to enforced change and conduct experiments impractical or impossible in the laboratory or field. Mathematical biology spans all areas of the life sciences, from moleculer biochemistry to ecosystems. Here in Bath our expertise is in population dynamics, including human and wildlife epidemiology, ecology and evolution. You can find out more about mathematical biology here.

Bath Centre for Mathematical Biology

The Centre was set up in 1994 to facilitate and encourage collaboration between mathematicians, biologists and other scientists interested in interdisciplinary research at the University of Bath. Its membership includes about twenty permanent academic staff, their postdoctoral researchers and postgraduate students.

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News

April 2013: Nick Britton speaking to the Edinburgh Mathematial Society at the University of Stirling.

February 2013 - September 2014: Mickael Teixeira-Alves will join the CMB as a visiting postdoc from INRA/INRIA Sophia Antipolis (France) to work with Frank Hilker on modelling pest control

January 2013: Publication in Journal of Theoretical Biology, "Predator-prey oscillations can shift when diseases become endemic", co-authored by Andrew Bate and Frank Hilker

January 20-27, 2013: Eduardo Liz (University of Vigo, Spain) visiting to collaborate with Frank Hilker and Daniel Franco on chaos control

October 2012: Katy Gaythorpe, Jennifer Jones and Andrew Woodford join the CMB as PhD students. Katy will be working with Ben Adams on models for improving the contorl of infectious diseases after natural disasters. Jennifer and Andrew will be working on pharmacokinetic models for non-invasive drug monitoring.

Septmber 2012 - August 2013: Daniel Franco from UNED (Universidad Nacional de Educacion a Distancia, Madrid) visiting.

September 10 -13, 2012: MPDE12 (Models in Population Dynamics and Ecology 2012) conference, Santa Maria, Brazil. Nick Britton giving plenary talk.

July 25 - 28, 2012: Society for Mathematical Biology annual meeting, Knoxville. Including talks by Nick Britton, Jane White, Finn McQuaid and James Clarke.

May 28 - June 1, 2012: ICAM 2012 (International Conference on Applied Mathematics 2012: Modeling, Analysis, and Computation), Hong Kong. Jane White an invited speaker.

May 7-20, 2012: Frank Hilker visits the Department of Applied Mathematics at UNED (Madrid, Spain) for research collaboration and gives two talks (one in a workshop on "Dynamical Systems and Applications" and one in a departmental seminar).

May 3-6, 2012: YoMo (Young Modellers in Ecology) workshop on "Connecting Theory, Modelling and Data", Craheim, Germany: Frank Hilker giving keynote talk.

April 2012: Nick Britton one of three nominees for election to the presidency of the Society for Mathematical Biology.  He has previously served on the Board of Directors of the Society, and is Chair of the Annual Meetings Committee.